Warner Bros. Discovery has left actors and fans utterly disappointed once again by choosing cold corporate profits over releasing two highly anticipated movies – the live-action/animated ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ and animated Scoob! sequel ‘Holiday Haunt’. Despite both movies being essentially completed, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav decided to scrap them solely as tax write-offs, depriving fans of movies they were eager to see.
The outcry over ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ has been even more vocal given reports that the movie is fantastic. Even when pressured to sell it to another studio or streamer, Warner Bros. Discovery callously set an outrageously high price to ensure no one would buy it just so they could write off the $70 million spent on it.
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Lead actor Will Forte finally broke his silence to express utter frustration over fans being deprived of seeing a “magnificent” movie. “I know many of you haven’t gotten a chance to see our movie and sadly, it’s looking like you never will,” he lamented in an Instagram post. He praised the movie as “visually stunning, sweet, sincere and emotionally resonant,” leaving him baffled why Warner Bros. Discovery scrapped it.
“Look, when it comes to Hollywood business stuff, I don’t know shit about shit. Even when a movie tests very well (like ours), there’s no guarantee that it’s gonna be a hit,”
While Forte acknowledged studios can do what they want, he made clear his absolute disappointment over fans being unable to see a wonderful movie, saying; “And at the end of the day, the people who paid for this movie can obviously do whatever they want with it. It doesn’t mean I have to like it (I fu**king hate it). Or agree with it. And it doesn’t mean that this movie is anything less than magnificent.”
Thus, this fantastic movie will likely never be released, leaving fans cheated.
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The story repeats itself with Scoob! Holiday Haunt. Fans were eager to see the next adventure with Scooby-Doo and the gang after 2020’s Scoob!. But Warner Bros. Discovery once again shattered their hopes by scrapping the essentially finished sequel solely as a tax write-off, despite the eagerness surrounding it.
Longtime Scooby-Doo actor Matthew Lillard, renowned for playing Shaggy, expressed optimism that he can still voice Shaggy in future projects after being replaced in Scoob!.
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“For me, being Shaggy for so many years and holding space for that part while honoring Casey Kasem, I know eventually I’ll pass that part to the next generation as he did. I’m honored to do that for as long as they’ll have me. Scooby-Doo is always in cycle in some capacity or another. We’re either doing a cartoon or a movie or a commercial for something.”
However, fans are heartbroken that they were denied seeing him voice Shaggy again in Holiday Haunt alongside the original cast due to Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision. “I’ve had the privilege and honor of being that voice for the last 16 or 17 years, so I will hold on to that as long as I can.”
The cold, profit-driven scrapping of two promising movies has left actors like Forte and Lillard as well as countless fans utterly disappointed. It seems inevitable that Warner Bros. Discovery will continue to break hearts in its nonstop quest to maximize tax write-offs regardless of artistic quality or fan enthusiasm. The magic of movies has fallen casualty to unchecked corporate greed; a tragic reality actors and fans alike must seem to accept.
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